Institute Calendar
April 2021
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Cosmology with Massive Neutrinos
Jia Liu,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Recycling of Moisture in the Amazonian Basin and Possible Impacts of Future Deforestation
Francina Dominguez,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenides: From Giant Optical Anisotropy to Ultralow Glassy Thermal Conductivity
Jayakanth Ravichandran,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Sunlight to Everything: Catalyzing a Sustainable Future
Online Event
Jonas Peters,
Bren Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
On the well-posedness of the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation
10:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
The Viscoelastic Behavior of a Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Thao (Vicky) Nguyen,
Professor; Marlin U. Zimmerman, Jr. Faculty Scholar,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Learnable Information in Deep Neural Networks
Stefano Soatto,
UCLA / AWS,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Stimulated Raman Scattering as a multi-dimensional tool to study neuroscience
Kun Miao (Wei Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
The Dark Phase of Quantum Matter
Louis Taillefer,
Université de Sherbrooke and CIFAR,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, April 23rd, 2021
9:30am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Online Event
Real-time gravitational replicas
Mukund Rangamani,
UC Davis/QMAP,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Prethermalization and dynamics in topological SYK pumps
Iliya Esin,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Women in Chemistry Seminar
Online Event
"My Journey from Chemistry to the Political Stage"
Dr. Nancy Goroff,
- Public Event
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Adaptive Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems
Online Event
Aditya A. Paranjape
Aditya A. Paranjape,
Scientist at Tata TCS Research and,
Department of Aeronautics,
Imperial College London (starting in summer 2021),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
The failure of the 4D light bulb theorem with dual spheres of non-zero square
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, April 24th, 2021
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, April 26th, 2021
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Approximating Choice Data by Discrete Choice Models (with Yusuke Narita)
Kota Saito,
Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Dielectric metasurfaces for integrated imaging devices and active optical elements
Hyounghan Kwon,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Reinforcement Learning for Complex Environments: Tree Search, Function Approximators and Markov Games
Qiaomin Xie,
Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering,
Cornell University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:15pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online Event
New Theoretical Approaches to Investigate Light-Matter Interactions
Pengfei (Frank) Huo,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Are Police Racially Biased in the Decision to Shoot?
Tom Clark,
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Political Science,
Emory University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Online Event
The tidal excitation of Jupiter's dilute core & Photochemistry, Aerosols, and Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres
Ben Idini,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Danica Adams,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
California Institue of Technology,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Online Event
"Building Biofilms: Surface Sensing and a Second Messenger Signal"
Shanice S. Webster,
Ph.D. Candidate O'Toole Lab,
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth,
5:00pm
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6:15pm
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Localization, stochastic localization, and Chen's recent breakthrough on the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonivits conjecture
Ronen Eldan,
Professor,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Boehringer Ingelheim-Caltech Lectures
Online Event
Uttam Tambar,
Professor of Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Texas - Southwestern,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Safety-Critical Control of Dynamic Robots
Aaron D. Ames,
Bren Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money (with Julien Combe, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimerk and Olivier Tercieux)
Mohammad Akbarpour,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Online Event
Small But Mighty: The Tiniest White Dwarf and Other Stories
Ilaria Caiazzo,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Visualizing Materials Functionality at the Atomic Scale
Aaron Lindenberg,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering and Photon Science,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
9:00am
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11:00am
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
Online Event
Race and the brain: Insights from the neural systems of emotion and decisions
Elizabeth Phelps,
Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Irmgard Bischofberger,
Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor; Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Online Event
Scaffold-Mediated Control of Competing Kinase Reactions in the Wnt Signaling Network
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Online Event
New opportunities for battery research and development from inside-out MRI and magnetometry
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Online Event
New Directions for Light Dark Matter
Yonit Hochberg,
Hebrew University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
Highly Enantioselective Biocatalytic [1,2]-Stevens Rearrangements: One-Carbon Ring Expansion of Aziridines to Azetidines
Dr. David Miller (Arnold Group),
Caltech,
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